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A Polyaniline-based Sensor of Nucleic Acids
Published on: November 1, 2016
Polyaniline nanofibers: chemical synthesis using surfactants
Xinyu Zhang1, Sanjeev K Manohar
1Department of Chemistry, Alan G. MacDonald Laboratories for Technical Innovation, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson 75080, USA.
Abstract:
Nanofibers of doped polyaniline.HCSA having diameters 1-2 nm are observed in TEM images of bath sonicated aqueous dispersions of larger nanofibers (30-50 nm diameter) synthesized by surfactant-assisted chemical oxidative polymerization of aniline in dilute aqueous organic acids.

